[Users] ET linking problem related to regex

[Wolfgang Kastaun]

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 12:50 -0500, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 06:54:40PM +0200, Wolfgang Kastaun wrote:
> > I'd prefer not having to do this on every system without a boost
> > installation, i.e. -lboost_regex would be inconvinient.
> 
> I don't suggest to add this to your thorn, but rather to the
> configuration options for this machine. This way boost wouldn't be
> picked up on other systems, but would only be used there.
> 

That's not what I meant, It's just that in order to use -lboost_regex,
I need to compile boost, which is unnecessary since my thorns only use
the header-only libs. Additionally, if Cactus suddenly using the boost
version of regexp calls for trouble.

Wolfgang.

> > Is there a way to switch off the usage of Boost regexp without removing
> > boost from the include path ?
> 
> I don't know of any. You should probably either not use boost in the
> include path (likely a problem if you actually use it), or specify to
> link against it as well.
> 
> Frank
>